Gun attachment



May 2, 1933. NEUHQUS 1,907,302

GUN ATTACHMENT Filed April 5, 1932 IZYYEIYTOR ERNST I. NEUHEIUS- Patented May 2, 1933 seas tilt PATENT OFFICE ERNST I. NEUI-IOUS, OF UKIAH, CALIFORNIA GUN ATTACHMENT Application filed. April 5, 1932. Serial No. 603,370.

This invention relates to improvements in firearms and has particular reference to guns, revolvers, rifles and the like.

The principal object of this invention is to provide means whereby the gun or other firearm may be accurately sighted at night.

A further object is to provide means whereby the object being sighted, if animate, will be blinded, thus giving the user of the gun the advantage.

A further object is to provide means whereby the user of the gun will be invisible to a person facing the gun.

A further object is to produce a device of this character which may be attached to any standard form of firearm without materially altering its construction, or upsetting its balance.

A further object is to produce a device of this character which is economical to manufacture, and one which will not harm the gun when removed therefrom.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gun having my invention applied thereto,

Figure 2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1, and

Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

There are many times when it is necessary to use a revolver, rifle, or shot gun during the night or in darkened places where it is impossible to observe the sights upon a gun so as to accurately aim the gun at the object being fired upon. Further, if an individual flashlight is used by the operator, it is first necessary to find the object with the flashlight, and to then raise the firearm and fire at the object without employing the sights. This does not make for accuracy, and further, it is dangerous if the object being sought is a criminal who may fire in self-defense. With applicants gun a powerful light is mounted upon the gun together with a sight tube. The gun is pointed at a target, that is, so the sights will coincide with the bullseye, and then the powerful light is adjusted so that the center of its rays of illumination coincide with the bullseye of the target, after which the light is secured to the gun against further adjustment, and thereafter, the center of the light will also coincide with the path of the projectile issuing from the gun. It will therefore be apparent, that at night when necessary, the user of the gun might hold the same at arms length to one side of him and merely press the trigger when the light falls upon the criminal. Therefore, if the criminal shot back toward the light, assuming that the user of the gun were at the point of the light, it will be by merest chance that he would hit the users arm.

In the shooting of game or other objects where the gun can be held to the shoulder, the person using the same may readily observe both of the sights on the gun for the reason that the tube fully protects the sights from the rays of illumination, and therefore, an accurate bead can be taken on the object.

In the accompanying drawing wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates the stock of a firearm which may be a rifle, shotgun or revolver, without altering the spirit of the invention. In the present instance, I have shown a rifle having a barrel 6 attached to the stock and upon which barrel are positioned sights 7 and 8. The structure thus far described is common to all firearms and has no bearing upon this invention.

My invention consists of a sight tube 9 which is mounted upon the barrel 6 and secured thereto by clips 11 and 12. This sight tube 9 has openings formed therein as shown at 13 to permit the sights 7 and 8 to project therethru, so as to be visible as shown in Fig. 3. Secured to the clip 12 is a reflector 14 having a light bulb 16' positioned therein. A brace 17 serves to hold this reflector against accidental movement. The box 18 serves to house batteries to furnish current to the bulb 16 thru the medium of a. wire 19. A switch 21 of ordinary construction serves to complete the circuit between the light bulb and the batteries.

The result of this construction is that when the reflector has been properly adjusted upon the tube 9 and secured thereto, the ring of illumination given out by the reflector 14 should have its center coincide with the sights 7 and 8 and therefore when the gun is used at night, operation of the switch 21 will cause the bulb 16 to be illuminated from the batteries on the box 18, after which a person may accurately shoot at an object which could not otherwise be seen.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a firearm having a barrel with sights mounted thereon, of a tube mounted on said barrel and having said sights projecting thru said tube and into the bore thereof, of illuminating means mounted adjacent said tube whereby an object may be illuminated and sighted thru said tube.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a firearm having a barrel, said barrel having sights mounted thereon, of a tube secured to said barrel, said tube having openings formed therein thru which said sights project, a reflector mounted on said tube, illuminating means mounted in said reflector, said reflector being so adjusted that its circle of illumination coincides with the line of sights on said gun whereby an object illuminated by said reflector may be accurately sighted thru said tube.

In testimony whereof I affix my si 'nature.

ERNST I. NEUHoUs. 

